Essentialism is also called "essence education" and "conservative education". Schools of modern western educational philosophy. Baglai, Demi Askovic, Morrison, Briggs, Condell and Finney are the main representatives who appeared in the United States in the 1920s.
After World War II, especially after the successful launch of 1957 Soviet satellite, essentialism became increasingly popular. At this time, the main representatives are Best, conant, Rickover and others. Essentialists do not have a unified philosophy (mainly realism and idealism), but they have the same view on education. It is believed that human nature is evil, and the reason why people are transformed and saved is mainly due to society.
He is critical of progressive education, which emphasizes learners' interest, freedom, current needs, personal experience, psychological organization and students' initiative, but ignores efforts, discipline, long-term goals, national experience, logical connection and teachers' initiative, completely abandons strict academic performance standards as the basis for upgrading, and ignores the systematicness and order of learning.
Thus reducing the quality of education. The goal of essentialism education is to correct the above disadvantages and bring American education back to the normal track. Although essentialists have different philosophies, they all emphasize the importance of ethnic experience or cultural inheritance in education, and think that the experience of most people who have been tested by history is more meaningful than personal experience.
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In the1940s, the idea of essentialism education was at a disadvantage because of the great momentum of progressive education. After the Second World War, especially in 1957, the Soviet satellite went into space, which shocked the American government and blamed the backwardness of science and technology on the quality of education. The educational proposition that essentialism attaches importance to systematic knowledge transmission has attracted people's attention.